Editing Crete (section)

===Prehistory===
{{Main|Prehistoric Crete}}
Stone tools suggest that [[archaic humans]] may have visited Crete as early as 130,000 years ago, but there is no evidence of permanent settlement of the island until the [[Neolithic]], around 7,000 BCE.<ref>{{Citation |last=Day |first=Jo |title=Crete, Archaeology of |date=2018 |url=http://link.springer.com/10.1007/978-3-319-51726-1_1434-2 |encyclopedia=Encyclopedia of Global Archaeology |pages=1–18 |access-date=2023-05-08 |place=Cham |publisher=Springer International Publishing |language=en |doi=10.1007/978-3-319-51726-1_1434-2 |isbn=978-3-319-51726-1}}</ref> Settlements dating to the [[aceramic]] Neolithic in the 7th millennium BC, used [[cattle]], [[Domestic sheep|sheep]], [[Domestic goat|goat]]s, [[pig]]s and [[dog]]s as well as domesticated [[cereal]]s and [[legume]]s; ancient [[Knossos]] was the site of one of these major Neolithic (then later Minoan) sites.<ref>C. Michael Hogan. 2007 [http://www.themodernantiquarian.com/site/10854/knossos.html#fieldnotes Knossos fieldnotes] The Modern Antiquarian</ref> Other neolithic settlements include those at [[Kephala]], [[Magasa, Crete|Magasa]], and [[Trapeza, Crete|Trapeza]].